Reminiscences of "Auld Ayr"J. Stillie, 1864 - 102 стор. |
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Сторінка 17 - That, viewing it, we seem almost to obtain Our innocent sweet simple years again. This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.
Сторінка 22 - A prison is a house of care. A place where none can thrive, A touchstone true to try a friend, A grave for one alive. Sometimes a place of right. Sometimes a place of wrong, Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves, And honest men among.
Сторінка 17 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Сторінка 19 - Welsh made it his first undertaking to remove the bloody quarrellings, but he found it a very difficult work ; yet such was his earnestness to pursue his design that many times he would rush betwixt two parties of men fighting, even in the midst of blood and wounds. He used to cover his head with a...
Сторінка 19 - ... was his earnestness to pursue his design, that many times he would rush betwixt two parties of men fighting, even in the midst of blood and wounds. He used to cover his head with a head-piece before he went to separate these bloody enemies, but would never use a sword, that they might see he came for peace and not for war; and so, by little and little, he made the town a peaceable habitation.